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In the 6th century d.C. indian literature testified to a magical game that would captivate human beings as a representation of war or world theater. The seductive legends about its origin strengthened the bond between the two disciplines, which from that moment on would feed back to each other.

Chess has served the literature of inspirational territory for the creativity of great authors, such as Lewis Carroll, Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, Julio Cortázar, Max Frisch or Fernando Arrabal, among many others, in whose work it occupies a considerable place.

In this essay, Antonio Gude and José Luis Torrego have carried out a colossal research work, collecting and analyzing the most significant titles of modern letters to leave a taxonomy and pay tribute to this millenary love story between two arts: literature and chess.